Looking for a Wireless SPDIF device. Does it exist?

[Googer]

I am looking for a wireless SPDIF device. I want to connect a toslink or spdif coax device to a transmitter and have a wireless receiver in another room convret the RF signal back to spdif coax and/or toslink. does such a device exist? Looking for something that can preferably support 5.1, 24bit 192khz.


If not, perhaps there is a way to convert SPDIF coax/toslink to hdmi then use a wireless hdmi box? Then convert HDMI to spdif at the receiving end.

 

[Rubycon]

I am looking for a wireless SPDIF device. I want to connect a toslink or spdif coax device to a transmitter and have a wireless receiver in another room convret the RF signal back to spdif coax and/or toslink. does such a device exist? Looking for something that can preferably support 5.1, 24bit 192khz.


If not, perhaps there is a way to convert SPDIF coax/toslink to hdmi then use a wireless hdmi box? Then convert HDMI to spdif at the receiving end.

It may be possible to do this via wifi with HDMI to Ethernet adapters.

 

[mmntech]

AFAIK, you can't do that. Wireless HDMI would have done it but the tech has long since become vapourware.

 

[Googer]

It may be possible to do this via wifi with HDMI to Ethernet adapters.

My Dac does not have HDMI. I am looking to avoid that route, because it it costly.

I did find this, but it's $100 and only supports 48khz PCM

http://www.emu.com/support/files/storage/e-mu-pipeline-user-guide.pdf
http://www.emu.com/products/product.asp?category=902&subcategory=903&product=18609

And this unknown device is friggin $200!
http://cryo-parts.com/wddc.html

However, I found a forum post stating you can use an analog wireless video adapter for SPDIF and that is much cheaper. The Thomson mentioned does not appear to be available. Anyone know where I Can find something similar?
http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/forums/lofiversion/index.php/t40839.html

I'm still open to other alternatives and suggestions.

 

[moonboy403]

There are plenty of options, such as Apple Airport Express/Squeezebox/Logitech Transporter, to transmit SPDIF wireless for two channel audio.

 

[Modelworks]

All you need is a transmitter and receiver that has enough bandwidth to send any signal HDMI included, there is nothing special involved . Analog video transmitters that do composite are a good choice for spdif , they have enough bandwidth and are pretty cheap to boot. You don't need a special version, just one that handles analog video. Connect the coax spdif to the transmitters composite input and enjoy.

 

[sunbreak]

I accomplished this some time ago on with an old X10 video sender like the one shown in the links below.

http://compare.ebay.com/like/221241026927

The trick is to use the video port for the SPDIF composite connection and not the stereo audio ports. So essentially you are turning the video sender in to a digital audio sender. I successfully established full DTS and Dolby surround sound without issue. I believe the video sender from X10 used a analog to digitial encoder that employed enough bandwidth to preserve the integrity out the other end.

All in all though it worked great. I still have two sets of these and although I'm not using them I keep them around for that great versatility of plugging anything in and digitizing it, sending it and boom ... out the other end ... neat!

 

[Pat Kelly]

Marmitek has a nice solution to wirelessly send SPDIF. The Audio Anywhere 685:
http://www.marmitek.com/en/product-...tal-audio-transmitters/audio-anywhere-685.php
You can use both coaxial and TOSLINK together.
So for example Coax at the transmitter and TOSLINK at the receiver.

 

[Googer]

Marmitek has a nice solution to wirelessly send SPDIF. The Audio Anywhere 685:
http://www.marmitek.com/en/product-...tal-audio-transmitters/audio-anywhere-685.php
You can use both coaxial and TOSLINK together.
So for example Coax at the transmitter and TOSLINK at the receiver.

Thank you!!!

 

[razel]

IIRC... SPDIF/Coax doesn't support 5.1, 24bit 192khz. Only 2 channel up to 192khz PCM. If officially isn't standardized for it. Doesn't mean that it'll stop you. 🙂 But realistically it supports multichannel 5.1, 7.1 through DD+, DTS, etc... the lossy compressed formats.